Al-Qa'ida Supporters Arrive in Diyala Province [Al Qaeda Attacks From Iran (MEMRI Excerpt)]

Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) / Al-Yawm Al-Aakher ^ | Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)

[TastyManatees]

Al-Qa'ida Supporters Arrive in Diyala Province

In a special report, the independent Al-Yawm Al-Aakher quoted sources in the Diyala Province as stating that they have been witnessing the emergence of an "unusual organization in the province identifying itself as 'Ansar Al-Qa'ida' [Supporters of Al-Qa'ida], and that their numbers have been increasing daily… Citizens in Ba'qouba described the developments in the province as harbinger of an armed military eruption in the near future if the American forces in the area fail to curtail the activities of such armed organizations…" [21]

[21] Al-Yawm Al-Aakher, August 18, 2003.

[Emphasis in Original].

[TastyManatees]

This confirms other reports that Al Qaeda is flooding into Iraq from Syria and Iran, and that they are attacking U.S. troops. Diyala Province is on the Iranian border.

Tasty Manatees

[ladtx]

I see this as good news. Get them concentrated in one area and it becomes a target rich environment. Saves us the tax money we would spend using all the gas, diesel, and jet fuel trying to run them down all over creation.

[concerned about politics]

I see this as good news. Get them concentrated in one area and it becomes a target rich environment. Saves us the tax money we would spend using all the gas, diesel, and jet fuel trying to run them down all over creation.

And Bush lured them into Iraq, and away from the people he vowed to protect.
The minions are gathering for the wine press, but the rightous will endure. (We have big, bigger, more expensive weapons).

[swarthyguy]

In northern Iraqi town of Suleimaniyeh, Hama Hussein, deputy chief of Talabani’s Kurdish Security forces was shot dead Wednesday in three-hour battle with al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Islam terrorists who seized house in town. Clash ended with capture of terrorists with help of US troops

From Debka, now on MSNBC/Reuters.

ANKARA, Aug. 29 — An Iraqi Kurdish party said on Friday that members of the militant Ansar al-Islam group had shot dead a deputy police chief in a shootout in the northern Iraq city of Sulaimaniya in which four militants also died.


The gun battle occurred on Wednesday after security forces from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) tracked down Ansar members to a house in the city, the PUK's Ankara representative Bahros Galali told Reuters.
The PUK, which controls the region around Sulaimaniya, has clashed repeatedly with members of Ansar al-Islam, a shadowy group reported to have links to al Qaeda.
The deputy police chief was shot dead as he got out of his car and in a subsequent shootout the four militants in the house were all killed, the PUK spokesman said. A five-year-old child was also killed and three people were injured during the fight.
Galali said the PUK forces sought out the militants after a tip-off that Ansar al-Islam members were hiding in the city and were planning an attack on the PUK leadership and U.S. forces.
The PUK said earlier this month it had captured several members of the group near the border with Iran.

[Shermy]

Lemme guess, our media will explain that these are Iranian controlled and directed, but something Iran can't control. And always they ignore that AQ has established a new base in Iran.

AQ is refocusing in a role it was usually paid to do - participate in an oil war under the guise of religion.

[optimistically_conservative]

OK, so there are bad guys in Iraq. Some are remnants, some are Johnny-Come-Lately's. There are probably not as many as the sum of daily reports suggest. Imagine not noticing this immigration from the MEMRI link, which would be larger than any of our divisions currently in Iraq^*), and does not count those from Syria, Iran, Pakistan and (should I say it?) Saudi Arabia:

20,000 Saboteurs in Baghdad

The independent daily Al-Yawm Al-Aakher reported that it obtained confirmed information that "ten thousand Egyptian saboteurs, and a similar number from Afghanistan, were sent to Baghdad to carry out sabotage operations, including bombings of embassies, to create instability…" The report stated that these operations "have no justifiable reasons [except to serve] agendas that are well known to a large segment of the Iraqi people." The paper concluded: "The Iraqis wish that those [saboteurs] are not dubbed Mujahideen or resistance fighters, because the situation is so confused now that we no longer know who is a resistance-fighter and who is a Mujaheed."

[angkor]

because the situation is so confused now that we no longer know who is a resistance-fighter and who is a Mujaheed."

Just call 'em "cannon fodder."

[BOBTHENAILER]

20,000 Saboteurs in Baghdad

They sure ain't gettin' much done for 20,000. Kinda makes me think that figure is a little off.

[truth_seeker]

Bush said: "...at the time and place of our choosing."

9/20/2001 Joint Session of the US Congress

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Score another one for DEBKA! Read it and weep, naysayers.

[Grampa Dave]

Travis McGee has compared Iraq to a very large insect lamp that is attracting all of the Middle East bad bugs into Iraq.

They check in and check out when they get zapped.

[Grampa Dave]

The leaders of AQ know that they lead their Islamokazis into death to protect the Opecker Princes and Thugs in control of Opec.

The Islamokazis are just happy to die for the Jihad.

Great news! Just kill all of the Islamokazis and Islamofascists in the Middle East. Every kill means one less scumbag that might bring about another 9/11 in America.

[Pro-Bush]

DEBKA RULES!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

And Bush lured them into Iraq, and away from the people he vowed to protect.

How could Bush have done this? Is in an incompetent with no gravitas. :O)

Yes, GW has done a masterful job fighting the war on terror in this regard. We are taking the fight to the terrorists on OUR terms on THEIR turf. Well done indeed.

I would be ecstatic if GW would apply the same amount of creativity and resolve in protecting OUR borders now. And in arming the pilots for *!&#!!* sake!!!